HHS OIG’s Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance
Medicaid Cuts: Potential Challenges and Legal Implications for Long-Term Care Facilities — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Understanding Senior Living Options with Beth Weeks
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Key Takeaways From the OIG's New Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facilities — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Preparing for CMS Staffing Mandates — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 6: Navigating the Audit Maze: Insights From Northeast Georgia Health System
Private Equity Investment in Long-Term Care – Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Hospice Insights Podcast - What's the Latest on UPICs? Highlights From Recent Audit Activity, Part II
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 6: Charting the Future of Nursing Home Staffing
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
An Alternative to Consolidations: Key Considerations for Management Services Organizations
A Very “Special” Episode: Amid Controversy, CMS Launches the Hospice Special Focus Program
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: The Upside of Compliance Plans for Senior Care Facilities
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Is Your Senior Care Facility Ready for Day One (and Two) of a Certification or Complaint Survey?
What Does It Mean? Understanding the Practical Implications of the New 36-Month Rule for Hospices
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Agency Investigations of Senior Care Facilities
Williams Mullen's Strategies for Senior Care: Crisis and Incident Response for Senior Care Facilities
Rob DeConti on the Latest Guidance and Insights from the OIG at HHS
North Carolina’s Healthcare Planning Section is hard at work on a new State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP), which can be expected to include a range of 2026 health care development opportunities in counties across North...more
In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske is joined by friend and industry veteran Kim Skehan. In this wide-ranging conversation, they explore not only the recent survey reforms but the ways in which Kim’s decades of...more
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) devised a “Special Focus Program” to identify poor performing hospices and help them improve through more frequent surveys and technical assistance. CMS would also impose...more
AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
The Biden Administration’s recent “Path Out of the Pandemic” expands the COVID-19 vaccine mandate covering nursing home workers and will soon reach 17 million healthcare workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities....more
As we described in a prior blog post, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published multiple COVID-19 Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers. CMS announced another round of Blanket Waivers on April 30 ...more
With the emergency declaration under the National Emergencies Act related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 13, 2020, President Trump paved the way for CMS to temporarily waive certain Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's...more
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on behalf of the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS), has adopted revised regulations that impact the Change of Ownership (CHOW) process and requirements for...more
Williams Mullen's Long-Term Care Conference will provide health care executives with the latest information on how to mitigate professional liability and regulatory risks; manage employment law matters, including overtime,...more
Recent actions by federal agencies and courts will have a direct impact on employers in the health care industry. While still wrestling with the changes wrought by the Affordable Care Act, health care employers will now need...more
I. SHPDA Administrative Report - AL2015-022, Gulf Health Hospitals, d/b/a Thomas Hospital, Daphne, AL: Proposes to establish a freestanding emergency department (FED). The project was approved with stipulation of...more
Each year the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issues its Work Plan to identify for the provider community the key fraud and abuse issues on which it will focus on in the coming...more